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The United States District Court of Idaho issued an order today approving the State of Idaho’s Implementation Plan in the long-standing lawsuit, Jeff D. v. Otter. The Implementation Plan outlines concrete steps Idaho will undertake in order to reform the state’s mental health system for children. Once fully implemented, an estimated 9,000 youth with serious [...]

Fairness Hearing Scheduled for Dec. 19th In August, the Editors of Hear Me Out posted a three-part series entitled The Road to Reform in Washington, describing the T.R. v. Dreyfus lawsuit and Young Minds’ efforts to help reform the children’s mental health system in Washington State. As previously reported, the parties to the lawsuit reached [...]

Improved Mental Health Services for Young People in Washington State - Part 3 This blog post is the third and final part of a three-part series highlighting mental health reform litigation that Young Minds’ has been working on with our co-counsel in Washington State. Filed in 2009, T.R. v. Dreyfus is a federal class action lawsuit [...]

Improved Mental Health Services for Young People in Washington State – Part 2 This blog post is the second of a three-part series highlighting mental health reform litigation that Young Minds’ has been working on with our co-counsel in Washington State. Filed in 2009, T.R. v. Dreyfus is a federal class action lawsuit brought on [...]

Improved Mental Health Services for Young People in Washington State This blog post is the first of a three-part series Hear Me Out will post over the next three weeks, highlighting reform litigation that Young Minds’ has been working on with our co-counsel in Washington State. Filed in 2009, T.R. v. Dreyfus is a federal [...]

Jeff D. Parties Exploring A Collaborative Approach to Improving Idaho’s Children’s Mental Health System Last week, Young Minds Advocacy Project along with co-counsel Howard Belodoff and the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) met with the state defendants to discuss Jeff D. v. Evans. Originally filed in 1980, the Jeff D. case seeks to provide [...]

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